convention

the theatrical convention of the aside.

the conventions of the antebellum South.

At the recent convention a declaration was adopted.

the convention of shaking hands.

he was an upholder of convention and correct form.

a Star Trek convention.

he gavelled the convention to order.

the device is a nod to the conventions of slapstick.

the Hague Convention was permissive, not mandatory.

the stylistic conventions of magazine stories.

preprimary conventions; preprimary support.

Old conventions die hard.

called the convention to order.

By convention, north is at the top of most maps.

the southern delegates had the convention in a chokehold.

the novel abandons the conventions of normal chronology.

the pictorial conventions of mass-media imagery.

a dialectical opposition between social convention and individual libertarianism.

those less trammelled by convention than himself.

social conventions that are a product of human design;

" Russia ratified the convention on refugees, " she said.

Trump wasted no time tossing diplomatic conventions overboard.

Phil last hosted the convention in 1948.

You feel like going to a convention?

Even the presence of a negro maid would not satisfy the conventions.

There was a comic book convention in the capital.

They are impatient with stuffy conventions.

But, in the summer of nineteen seventy-two, attention focused on the presidential nominating conventions.

Traditionally the party that doesn't hold the White House has its convention first.

You could blow off the convention.